Gender Equality

Women have made great strides in the fight for equality, including women’s suffrage and inroads in equal opportunity in the workplace and education. However, women and girls still face women still face discrimination, violence, and institutional barriers to equal participation in society. ACLU-TN works to ensure that women can enjoy the benefits of full equality and participation in work, education, and every sphere of our communities.

Know Your Rights: Transgender People and the Law Navigating legal protections as a transgender or gender non-conforming individual can be confusing and stressful. ACLU’s “Know Your Rights: Transgender People [...]

Know Your Rights: Pregnant, Post-Partum and Breastfeeding Workers - What to Do If You Face Workplace Discrimination Although state and local laws and protections differ across the country, federal [...]

Tell NCAA they're wrong about North Carolina’s so-called "repeal” of HB2 The NCAA just announced that North Carolina’s so-called #HB2 "repeal" bill is sufficient to justify bringing championship games [...]

Watch "Celebrating Freedom, Fighting for Justice" about ACLU-TN's history From the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial to representing Dr. Martin Luther King during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike to [...]

A federal judge today granted a preliminary injunction in an American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee lawsuit challenging the use of solitary confinement for juveniles. The injunction prohibits the county from subjecting children in its detention facility to solitary confinement as punishment while the case proceeds.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 22, 2017 CONTACT: Lindsay Kee, ACLU-TN communications director, 615-320-7142 NASHVILLE — Today the bill that would have prohibited transgender students from accessing restrooms and other sex-segregated [...]

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